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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Drop Everything and Knit This, STAT!

Unless you have been living under a rock (and I say that in the most loving way, since I live there most of the time) you might have noticed that cowls seem to be HOT.

I had sort of noticed this cowl phenomenon, but not really paid attention. Then, the other week when my mom was here, I was showing her how to use Ravelry, and being the Diaper Lady that she is, I thought she might have an interest in cowl patterns. Well, if you search for cowl patterns on Ravelry, you come up with 20 pages for crying out loud! And many of the patterns are free!

I found this one that I like a lot. It called for sport weight, but I added one 12 stitch repeat and used some leftover sock yarn. (Being that I have a dump truck load of leftover sock yarn on hand.)

Just a couple of soccer games and a movie or two later....and you have this funny looking lumpy tubey thing. (About 9 inches long, stretched.)

Block it out (using a hair dryer, to speed up the process if you are really excited!)

Voila! Blocked measurements 8" wide by 9" high.

Just the right amount of scrunch, not too much flop. You will notice that it doesn't even match what I'm wearing, so excited was I to snap a photo and break the news of this fantastic project.

See? Excited! I predict a bevy of these in my future. Match every outfit! Give them to friends! Make it the Official Teacher Gift of 2008! I won't leave you out, Mom!

The pattern is free and don't tell me you don't have 36 gm of sock yarn in your favorite color (or you could go all mavericky and use the sport weight that the pattern calls for), so go. Bedeck thyself in cowls and be happy.

16 Comments:

Cute! I have only just recently noticed the cowl craze, too. I have been thinking about making one for my bike ride to work! But I really wonder about how static-y it would make my hair when I am pulling it on and off. Any static issues with this one?

"go all mavericky".....I love it! Hey, isn't that the same stitch pattern as Arianne? I left her languishing on the needles last winter and this might just be the perfect project to get me back in the groove.

I was literally just looking at some cowl patterns at the same time that I came over here. :) I have some handspun that I wanted to use and this is perfect! Thank you! Yours is gorgeous - fabulous colorway! :D